NOTE: The first mention of Nick's father was in the
Season One episode "Dark Priest" where we found
out his name: "Jonathan Boyle." For who knows
what reason, his name got changed to "Robert"
in this episode. He is now affectionately known to the
fans as "Jon-Bob" (thanks to JuliaK!)

Foggy evening along San Dimas Road

Nick drives fast along a deserted road. He has the top
up on his red 1966 Ford Mustang convertible and is
listening to the radio as he drives. He switches from a
music station to a talk station that's discussing family.
When a caller comes on and begins to talk about his
parents and how he hated his childhood, Nick abruptly
changes the station to rock music. Suddenly, the radio is
filled with static as a huge bright white light appears
directly in front of his car. He pulls down the car visor
and hits the brakes, which puts the car in a skid and
causes him to go off the road. When he stops, he
exclaims, "What the hell was that?" and gets
out of the car and sees the right front tire is flat.
"Perfect." Then he hears a man scream and cry,
"Help me!" He looks in the direction of the
scream and sees an old abandoned house from the turn of
the century with a crumbling stone fountain in front.
Everything is covered with overgrown vines and shrubs.
Suddenly, a flash of light comes from one of the front
windows. He runs to the window and looks in. There is
dust and cobwebs everywhere and some old furniture is
covered with dusty cloth covers. He also sees a man in a
chair screaming, "Help me!" The man is sprawled
in the chair and another man, standing, holds his hand on
the man's chest. A glowing light appears from the hand
and the man in the chair again calls out for help. Nick
runs to the front door and enters the house. The man in
the chair looks directly at Nick and begs, "Nick!
Help me." Nick, looking shocked, replies, "Dad.
You're dead." Then the man in the chair suddenly
glows all over and shrivels up into a shrunken dry corpse
and both the glowing man and the other disappear like
they were never there. Nick stands, gasping for air,
looking very shaken by the experience.

Legacy House kitchen- later that
night

Nick explains what happened to Alex and Derek.
"The moment I got there this one guy reached out
with his glowing hand and killed the other guy."
Alex, wearing a brown blouse and a diamond patterned
brown skirt asks Nick in a concerned voice what he did.
In a perplexed voice he responds, "What could I do?
They disappeared like they were never there." Derek,
wearing a charcoal shirt and a grey tie with a black
suit, looks intently at Nick, and asks how he happened to
be on San Dimas road because it's so far away from the
main road. Nick simply replies he took a shortcut and
went the wrong way or something. He seems very
preoccupied and tense. Alex asks what he thinks it was he
saw. "I don't know but it sure as hell seemed
real." Derek asks him to describe the house and
listens carefully to his description as if remembering
something. Derek then asks if he recognized either man.
Nick gives a very evasive reply that the killer had his
back to him and the other man was too dark to see. He
avoids Derek's eyes when he answers, and looks away.
Derek, watching Nick's expressions closely, looks puzzled
by the answer but says nothing. Nick concludes that it's
been a long night and he's going to turn in. They say
goodnight as he leaves. Derek looks at Alex and raises
his eyebrows in concern.

Derek's office  next morning

Rachel enters, saying Alex told her about Nick's
accident and worriedly asks what happened. Derek, who is
sitting in his desk chair with his feet up on the desk
says he's not sure it was an accident. He's looking at
the contents of a file and takes photos out, getting up
to move to Rachel's side to show her a picture of the
house that Nick described the previous night. He tells
her that Nick's description of the house got him
thinking. He wanted to be sure so he got out the file to
see for himself They look at the photo and Derek tells
her it's got to be the same one where Nick's father,
Robert Boyle, was murdered 12 years ago. She asks if he
said anything to Nick about this and Derek replies that
since Nick was never told the details of his father's
murder so he wanted to be sure himself. He also tells her
that Nick had said he didn't recognize either man yet
Derek has his doubts. He thinks Nick saw a vision, a
replay of his father's murder. Derek has plans to report
the incident to London because Robert's murder has
baffled the Legacy for 12 years. When Rachel asks if
London will reopen the case, Derek replies the case was
never closed.

Library  later that day

Derek is standing, intently studying a document, when
Nick enters looking worried. He confides to Derek that
last night he didn't tell him everything that happened.
Nick seems troubled and tells Derek that the man who he
saw murdered the previous spoke to him and it was his
father. Derek moves closer to Nick then tells him gently
that the house he was at was where his father died. When
Nick asks why he didn't tell him before, Derek replies he
wasn't sure until he checked the file for himself.
Derek's voice is very calm and supportive as he goes on
to tell Nick there were extremely unusual circumstances
surrounding his fathers death. Derek has his arms crossed
in front of him and watches Nick intently for his
reactions. Nick swallows hard as Derek asks him gently
and kindly if he remembers the funeral and, "That
the casket was closed?" Nick, looking off in the
distance, recalls a 21-gun salute, and a US flag being
folded by uniformed men. Nick, still looking away,
replies as if remembering a circumstance long ago,
"They said he was hurt pretty bad." Derek,
continuing to assess Nick closely answers gently,
"There was no way we could prepare him for viewing.
What was in the casket was little more than an empty
shell. Whatever killed your father had sucked the life
from his body." Nick, still introspective, remembers
the house and Robert asking him to "Help me."
Derek carefully tells him, "We need to investigate
what happened to you in that house." Nick quickly
comes back to the present and obviously does not want to
pursue the issue. He emotionally replies, "I spent
12 years trying to forget Robert Boyle. Solving his death
isn't high on my list of priorities." Derek
continues in a very gentle, understanding voice, "I
know this isn't easy for you Nick, but your father was
one of us. It's Legacy business." Nick angrily but
quietly, retorts, "He made my childhood a survival
test. Was that Legacy business?" Derek, still
standing directly in front of Nick, gently tells him,
"I know your father was a deeply flawed man but he
was also a very brave man. I wish you could have known
him that way." Nick becomes introspective again and
looks off in the distance before responding sadly,
"Me too."

Nick's bedroom  night

Nick, wearing a grey T-shirt, sleeps restlessly, in
the throes of a nightmare recalling the emotional and
physical abuse he suffered from his father. His father
screams at him and taunts him for not being good enough.
"It's not good enough. Come here you half-wit.
There's no use whining." Robert also tells the child
Nick in the dream that his own father would take him
outside and whack him alongside the head. In the dream,
Nick the child, begs his father, "Don't hit
me!" "Daddy Please" "I'm so
sorry," and screams in pain, "Dad No!" He
nightmare ends with the dried up corpse in the house and
his father begging, "Help me." Nick, sweating,
abruptly awakens and sits up, calling, "Dad?,
"as he breathes heavily.

House on San Dimas road  later
that night

Nick, wearing a black leather jacket, enters, turns on
his flashlight and begins searching the abandoned house.
He calls out "Dad?" as he walks around the
house. Moonlight casts an eerie blue glow in the house as
he searches. He has just started to go upstairs when he
hears his father behind him saying, "Nick" Nick
turns on the stairs and angrily demands, "What do
you want from me?" Robert calls Nick closer then
reaches over and grabs his shoulders and demands
"free me, son." Then he takes Nick head in his
hands and begins shaking him and says sternly, "Free
Me." Nick reaches up and forcibly breaks his
father's grasp, falling back on the stairs in the
process. The ghost disappears. Nick is extremely shaken
and disturbed at the encounter.

Derek's office  next day

Nick, looking troubled, stands next to Derek's desk,
staring at the floor and tells Derek, who is standing,
and Rachel, who sits on the edge of the desk, that his
father's spirit came to him and wants him to help set him
free. Nick's voice is shaky and he's obviously very
stressed. Both Rachel and Derek watch Nick closely.
Rachel asks gently, "Free him from what?".
Nick, still looking at the floor sounds very depressed as
he answers, "I don't know." Rachel leans
towards him and gently prods, "what?" He sounds
confused as he responds, "You know, I don't need
this. I don't have one good memory of the guy. Maybe I
just invented the whole thing." He walks towards the
door and Rachel moves off the desk to face Nick,
reassuring him that he knew the actual description of the
body and the house and, "If its any comfort I don't
think what you see is in your mind." Nick listens to
what she says carefully, then replies, "Then I would
just like it if he leaves and goes where dead people
go." He sounds and looks both exhausted and annoyed.
Rachel standing directly in front of him looks very
concerned and intently watches Nick's face and responses.
She seems very supportive. Derek moves to Rachel's side
and also stands very near Nick as he quietly reminds Nick
that his father's life was taken suddenly and violently
and it's not uncommon for murdered souls to remain on
this side. Nick, looking dismayed, questions, "Why
is he coming to me now? It's already been 12 years."
Derek patiently replies, "Maybe he's been there all
along. You just got close enough for him to feel you and
to draw you in." Nick, sounding exhausted, replies,
"Next time I stick to the main drag."

Derek gently continues, "I think you should
engage his spirit. Find out what he really needs."
Nick asks incredulously, "You're asking me to help
him find what he needs?"

Rachel, softly replies, "No. He's asking you to
talk to your father." "Major Boyle didn't talk,
he gave orders," Nick replies disdainfully. Rachel
still watches Nick who turns and walks around. He then
comes back to the two of them. They both listen and watch
him intently and supportively as he tells them, "You
know, when I was 8 years old he took me hunting. I was so
excited I couldn't stop talking. I kept asking him, what
are we going to shoot? Do you know what his answer
was?" He pauses then says slowly and deliberately,
"Whatever hadn't learned to be quiet. And. You want
me to talk to him?" Nick speaks quietly but with
deep bitterness and incredulity. Rachel gets a very
pained expression on her face as Nick tells the story
then puts her head down and replies. "I don't
know." Derek observes Nick silently.

Legacy House  Foyer 
evening

A car drives up outside and Derek enters with Alex as
she tells him that Brian Krenshaw, a special consultant
from the London House, just flew in that morning. Rachel,
wearing a grey miniskirt and black blouse waits with
Brian and tells them that Brian is a forensic specialist
and very familiar with the Boyle murder. Derek says he
wasn't informed that London was sending someone. Brian
replies they didn't know because he came when he read the
report. He was in Rome. . His father Jason worked with
Robert Boyle on many occasions. Derek mentions he must be
Jason's son. Brian comments that not many people l knew
he had a son. Derek tells him that Jason spoke of him
very little. Alex asks why that was and Brian smiles and
easily says that his father and mother never married and
he didn't much of him until he was a teenager. The reason
he came is because he thinks his father was killed by the
same person that killed Robert Boyle. Rachel asked if
that's why he joined the Legacy and Brian responds
cryptically, "We all do what we have to do. If
Robert Boyle has made contact with this side he may have
information about his killer." Derek notes that
he'll want to talk to Nick but "He's not here right
now, but he'll be back tomorrow morning." Alex takes
him to the guest room.

House on San Dimas Road  late
that night

Nick looking upset and very stressed, waits at the
house. His father appears calling, "Nick." Nick
asks again angrily, "What do you want from me?"
Robert moves towards Nick saying, "Help me."
Nick comments bitterly, "That's a switch, Robert
Boyle needing his son." Robert, appears to be
feeling sorry for himself as he responds, "When I
died, something happened." He shows no emotion to
Nick and walks right past him and stares off in the
distance as he continues, "Something was taken from
me. And that's why I'm still here. Stuck in this
place." Nick sharply says "Strange. I always
pictured you in hell." Robert looks sternly at Nick
and says "You're angry son, I know that." Nick
spits out, "How could you know? You died before I
had a chance to tell you how I felt." Robert
answers, "You didn't have to. I saw you at my
funeral. I don't know how, but I was there in the crowd
and I saw my own son watching his father being buried and
there were no tears." Nick, extremely stressed,
acridly says, "I spent my life trying to be good
enough to be Robert Boyle's son and all I ever got from
you was the back of your hand. The day they put you in
the ground I was finally free." Robert replies,
"I wish that were true son. Help me. Please. Help
me." He disappears.

Legacy Control Room - next morning

Derek is in the room with Brian when Nick enters,
carrying a cup of coffee. He wears a grey T-shirt and a
grey shirt and blue jeans. Derek introduces him to Nick
and Brian goes up to him and starts talking. Nick looks
puzzled but smiles and comments he needs to be filled in.
"Sorry, I'm only on my first cup of coffee, did I
miss something?". Derek tells him Brian's father was
Jason Crenshaw Nick recalls, "They were partners
right?" Derek continues, telling Nick that Brian is
following the reports of Robert's sighting and he flew in
from London. Nick chuckles, "London must be having a
slow day. He's been dead for 12 years." Brian says
that while there were other reports in the past of dried
up corpses, this sighting is distinctive because it can't
be explained. He asks Nick if he communicated with his
father. Nick sarcastically replies, "Oh yeah.
Regular family reunion." Brian asks if he told Nick
how he died or anything to identify the killer. Nick
answers that, "No, we mostly spoke about us. My
relationship with my father was hardly filled with warm
memories." Brain goes on to say that he knows how
hard this must be for him because his father was horribly
murdered and the killer never found. He believes same man
murdered both their fathers.

Nick's bedroom

Nick's collection of memorabilia is displayed on the
bureau. In a black frame with gold edging is a collection
of patches framed on a black background. Included are
ones from SEAL Teams 3, 4 and 6, and a patch of a dragon.
Also framed and displayed are various military type
medals and other awards. Miniature car replicas including
a 66 mustang sit prominently. Nick is lying across his
double bed with a wooden carved headboard. Open on the
bed is a wooden box, emblazoned with the SEAL crest. He
slowly looks through the contents. He picks up dog tags.
He next picks up and looks at an unopened letter, hand
addressed to Nick Boyle, 5273 Balboa St., San Francisco
CA 94113. The return address is Robert Boyle, PO Box
2598, Oakland CA 94919. It has a canceled 22-cent stamp
and is postmarked Oakland 1985. He puts the letter down
again and picks up and looks at a picture of a group of
mourners standing around a flag draped casket. In the
photo, Derek stands next to a woman in black and a
teen-aged Nick stands at her other side. They are flanked
by a military honor guard. Nick has memories of his
father yelling angrily and taunting him by telling him he
wasn't good enough. Nick is absently fingering the
picture when Derek walks in his room, sees what Nick is
looking at and comments gently, "There's nothing
quite as moving as a military funeral." Nick comes
back to reality and somberly answers, "I don't know
if that's good or bad." Derek smiles gently and
kindly and replies, "Both I suppose. Especially if
it's your father that's being honored." Nick picks
up a pocketknife from the box and opens it slowly. Derek
continues talking softly while moving closer to Nick and
tells him that it was strange that day, watching the
funeral because it felt like his father was there. Nick
replies, "Yeah, he had that kind of invincible
quality around him." Then he suddenly remembers and
sits upright on the edge of the bed before telling Derek
that at the house the previous night, Robert told him he
was there in the funeral crowd. He told him he could see
him even though he was dead. He looks up quizzically at
Derek, "But his ghost was trapped in the
house." Derek sits down on the edge of the bed and
asks intently, "When you saw the man with your
father you said some kind of a light passed between
them?" "Yeah. The life was sucked right out of
him into the other guy," Nick recalls. Derek tells
him he believes that the way Robert was killed gave his
soul some momentary connection with the killer. His
father saw what the killer saw.. Nick looking intently at
Derek says, "Then the killer had to be at the
funeral." Derek, very serious, picks up the picture
and looks at it saying, "If he was, he may be in the
picture."

Control Room

Alex, wearing a fitted grey sweater, and a grey long
straight skirt, has the funeral picture up on the large
screen. She has eliminated those people that are known
family, military or Legacy as she tries to narrow down
the search. Nick sits next to her and says he had to be
in the crowd. . Brian walks in announcing he wouldn't be
so sure about that. Nick, annoyed, asks, "Why is
that?" as he stares directly at Brian. Brian
sarcastically answers that if he were smart enough to
kill both their fathers why would he show up at the
funeral. Alex quietly suggests that maybe there was
something he was after. Nick, turning in his chair to
face Brian, replies sarcastically, "Or maybe it was
just arrogance. Smart people can get like that."
Brian replies that it just seems to easy. Nick, getting
impatient with him, says he heard what his father said
and its all they have to go on. He gets up and walks out
passing Derek, who has just entered wearing a black suit,
deep grey shirt and grey tie. Derek looks concerned and
quizzical at what had just been said. He moves over to
Brian and looks annoyed at him.

Outside - Balcony

Nick throws pebbles like a baseball pitcher. Derek
comes out and compliments, "Nice arm." Nick
laughs and replies, "One-Two with Boyle on the
mound" and prepares to throw the third pebble,
"Strike three," he says satisfied. Derek
watches then says, "You know you and Brian have to
find a way to work together on this." Nick replies
"Yeah. We will." He looks down and away from
Derek who still watches Nick intently while saying,
"I hope so." Very supportively, Derek
continues, You're under more pressure than you realize.
So is he." Nick looking at Derek then away, says,
"I don't know about Brian but I was raised under
pressure. I can handle it." Derek, still concerned,
but satisfied with the answer, replies, "Good."
He then opens an envelope he brought outside with him and
shows Nick a picture that he found in the Legacy
archives. It's a wide angle of the funeral that shows all
the mourners. He's going to give it to Alex to get
started on and he tells Nick, "I'd like you to take
another trip to the house." Nick asks why and Derek
replies if he can contact his father again Robert may
have more information. Nick looking down at the pebbles
remaining in his hand replies, "Well, he was never
exactly the great communicator." Derek looks away
and gently says "Ah, okay.". He then claps him
on the back and turns and goes into the house. Nick
resumes throwing pebbles.

House on San Dimas road  day

Nick, wearing a brown suede jacket, enters the house
and calls out for Robert Boyle. Then, like a child would
call, he says, "Dad?" He gets no response and
comments casually to himself that it's not like he had an
appointment. Robert then appears saying "
Nick?" Nick begins to ask, "You said something
was taken from you when you died." Robert ignores
his statement and instead he says, "He's here, he's
back." Nick continues, " and that's why
you're stuck here you can't move on until your life force
is..." Robert starts to talk again, not listening,
but Nick keeps talking, "The killer was at your
burial." Robert responds, "Nick! Listen to
me!" Nick, very upset and frustrated shouts,
"No! You listen to me. Just once why won't you
listen to me? " Robert says, "Nick, you're in
danger. I can feel it. I'm trying to make you
understand." Nick sharply but with great sadness in
his voice, replies, "Make me understand, Dad. Make
me understand how Major Robert Boyle was a man of honor,
a paragon of virtue and integrity, because I spent a
lifetime trying to understand." Robert solemnly
replies, "You hate me." Nick acridly says,
"Hating you for 15 years was enough, now I just
don't care." Robert responds that he can't undo
what's been done and he won't ask for his forgiveness. As
he talks, Nick begins breathing very fast and very
shallow as if hyperventilating. Robert goes on to say
that he was hard on him because he wanted him to be
strong and to survive. He also says that his own father
was harder on him than he was on Nick. Survival was the
only thing he ever taught him. He ends with, "I
wasn't born a monster Nick, I was raised to be one."
Nick, looking tormented, asks, "Why didn't you tell
me?" Robert only says "Save yourself Nick, Save
yourself." As Nick says, "No wait!" Robert
turns and repeats the words then disappears. Nick turns
to walk out and he's knocked out from behind. The man
that attacked him leans forward and places a glowing hand
just over his face and says, "No not yet." Then
he walks out leaving Nick unconscious.

Legacy House- Derek's office

Nick leans against the wall while Derek explains to
Brian that Nick went to the house because he asked him
to. Brian lectures the decision was totally
irresponsible. Derek looks at him very sternly. Brian
reminds him that he oversees the investigation. Derek
reminds him he's precept and the decision was his to
make. Brian agrees and says he's invested a great deal of
his life to finding out who killed Robert Boyle and his
father and that's what he still wants to find out. Derek
replies, "Good. Then we all want the same
thing."

Control Room - night

Alex shows them that in the wide-angle funeral picture
there is a man off away from the crowd standing near a
tree. She has used the official records from the funeral
and was able to identify everyone but that person.. She
brings it in extreme close-up and the face is too fuzzy
to identify. Brian responds that he doesn't see how that
helps. Alex patiently tells him that he computer can
enhance the resolution of his face but it will take
awhile.

Kitchen  that evening

Brian sits at the table working on paperwork. Nick
enters and grabs two beers from the small frig and offers
one to Brian who accepts. He asks Brian if he ever shared
a beer with his old man. Brian replies he did so a few
times and asks Nick why he asked that. Nick answers that
he figured it was a rite of passage like fishing or
playing catch. Brian seems astonished and asks, "You
didn't?" Nick simply comments, "No. I was 15
when he died. We had other ways of bonding". Brian
replies that even though he didn't have much time
together he misses talking with his father. He goes on to
tell Nick that he wishes he'd had the same opportunity as
he did to talk to him again. Nick replies "it's only
an opportunity if you have something to say." Brian
can't believe Nick isn't curious and didn't want to ask
his father things such as what it's like to be dead .Nick
replies that he guesses "it slipped my mind."
Brian surprised, tells Nick he doesn't understand him.
Nick smiles slightly and responds, "There's no
reason you should. I don't understand myself half the
time." Brian reminds Nick their fathers were friends
who gave more to the Legacy than they gave to them and
yet they were both murdered by the same man. He comments
that if he were in Nick's place he'd want to know
everything. Nick simply replies, "You weren't in my
place." He walks out of the kitchen leaving Brian
standing alone.

Nick's room

Nick lies on his back, straddling a weight table and
lifts a barbell over his head. His muscular arms are
prominent in a T-shirt. Alex walks in and he carefully
puts the weights back in the rack. She says the computer
is nearly done with the first pass on the photo and she
thought he may want to see it. She moves to the bureau
and leans against it. Nick sits up and asks seriously,
"Have you ever thought about having kids?" She
smiles widely and exclaims "Isn't this a little
sudden?". He looks up seriously and then smiles
before continuing, "You know what I mean. Diapers.
Bottles. The whole thing." Alex thinks for a second
then answers, "Eventually, if the time is right. How
about you?" Nick looking off worriedly, answers,
"I don't think so". Alex is incredulous and
prods gently, "Come on., I know you like kids. I've
seen you with Kat." She's obviously very concerned
and sincere as she watches him carefully. Nick replies,
very seriously, "I love Kat but she's not
mine." Alex continues and quietly asks, "What
if you had a child of your own? A son, say?". Nick,
with great sadness in his voice, replies simply, "I
don't know" Alex moves towards Nick as she says
confidently, "I do. I think I know Nick Boyle pretty
well. He's smart, he cares about people, and there's
nothing I wouldn't trust him with." Nick looks away
slightly embarrassed. She continues gently and
reassuringly, "You're not your father, Nick. You're
not like him. You turned out okay. You just have to trust
yourself." He looks at her intently and listens,
then very seriously asks, "Are you sure about
that?" Alex looks exasperated and replies, "All
right. You're totally nuts," with a big grin. Nick
smiles and relaxes. Alex concludes, "But. I think
you'd make a great father." Nick deflects the
conversation by asking "Didn't you have a picture to
show me?" Alex looks at him intently for a second
then grins, "Yeah."

Control Room

Nick and Alex work on the picture resolution, which is
29 % complete. They still can't tell who it is because it
takes a long time. Brian comes in with Derek and says
that they don't know it's a man. It could be a woman.
Nick reminds him he saw the killer, but Brian asks him if
he can be absolutely sure it was a man. He wonders how
the murderer could get that close be able to murder him
without a confrontation. Nick gets extremely defensive at
that point and asks "What are you saying
Brian?". Derek looks at Nick, very concerned. Brian
continues and reminds Nick, "You know your father.
You know what type of man he was." Nick, angrily,
replies, , "Better than anyone but he wasn't that
type." Brian dismisses that and decides that no
matter, that's the direction they're going to pursue.
Nick remains hostile and asks Derek to straighten this
guy out before he does. Derek gently replies that London
gave Brian control over certain aspects of the case
including the house. Nick looks directly at Derek in
surprise. Brian tells Nick that all attempts to contact
his father must be made in his presence. "He won't
show," Nick says as he abruptly leaves the control
room. Alex looks at Derek worriedly as Brian replies,
"That remains to be seen."

Outside Balcony - next morning

Nick leans against the balcony in deep thought. A cup
of coffee sits on the rail and he absently moves his SEAL
ring all around his finger. Rachel, wearing a black
skirt, black top and grey vest, comes out and leans
against the balcony right next to him and casually asks
who won the game last night. He responds with a smile
that there was no game the previous night. Rachel looks
into the distance and admits, "Busted.". She
notices him playing with his ring and watches for a few
seconds. She looks towards Nick and says, "Well
unless you want to talk about the weather, I guess that
leaves your father." Nick smiles and replies,
"I saw that one coming.". He looks off into the
distance. Rachel looks at him then asks if he ever tried
to talk to his father and tell him how he really felt?
Nick replies that he wanted to, "I wanted him to
know what he was doing to me. Why everything had to be so
hard. Why I was never good enough." He continues to
move his ring around on his finger and Rachel keeps
watching his face as he continues in a sad voice, "I
just wanted to hear him say that I was gonna be OK. Just
once." She shakes her head and looks away as Nick
continues, "But whenever I tried to tell
him " Rachel finishes knowingly, "He shut
you down." Nick replies, " Or I
choked." She exhales and looks off into the distance
and Nick continues to fidget with his ring. He tells he
finally wrote his father a letter, "Put everything I
felt and everything I had to say into words." He
still looks off in the distance as he talks. "Did he
respond?" Rachel looks back at Nick hopefully who
responds, "What difference does it make? He's
dead." Rachel looks intently at Nick and says,
"You were 15 years Old Nick. You just wanted him to
accept you for who you were." Nick looks directly at
Rachel and quietly and seriously says, " I wanted
him to love me." Then he looks back at the ring he's
been moving around as Rachel continues watching him,
looking very concerned.

Nicks room - later that morning

Nick sits in a chair in faded jeans and a white
T-shirt holding the unopened letter. With sudden resolve
he goes to open it. Just then there's a knock on the
door. It's Brian who wants to talk. Nick gets up and
tells him there's nothing to talk about because Brian
already made the decision. He puts the unopened letter in
his top bureau drawer. Brian tells Nick that he made that
decision for both of them. He goes on to say he went to
the house and saw Nick's father. He describes to Nick
that his father was wearing a dark jacket and a military
ring. Nick, looking incredulous, asks why he would show
himself to him. Brian replies that Robert was killed
trying to solve Brian's fathers' murder and therefore
knows he was connected. Nick asks if he spoke to him and
Brian answers that Robert had told him time was running
out and it had to be tonight. Brian also tells Nick that
his father asked for Nick specifically. Nick gets his
coat on and asks Brian if he mentioned it to Derek. Brian
replies, "What for? So Derek could go charging over
there and scare the killer off?" Nick asks,
"What are you saying?" Brian tells him he's
saying they can do this. "Avenge our fathers after
all these years. What do you say?" Nick reminds
Brian that it's his investigation. Brian retorts that
it's theirs and asks Nick if he'll come with him.
"How do you even know he's going to be there?"
Nick says, staring at Brian. "What else could your
father's words mean. The time is running out, tonight.
The killer's going to show up, Nick and I'm going to be
there when he does."

Control Room - later that day

Alex, wearing light grey slacks and a grey scooped
neck sweater, walks into the empty room and looks up at
the screen where the computer program is 78 % completed
with resolving the face. She exclaims "Oh my god. I
can't believe it.".

When the program is 96% complete, Derek in a black
shirt and black pants with a grey suit jacket, and
Rachel, in the same outfit she wore that morning, flank
Alex, who wears a grey sweater. Derek and Rachel look at
the face on the screen. Rachel comments that Brian was
too young to be at the funeral. Derek recognizes the face
as Jason Krenshaw and tells them they always thought he
was murdered before Robert but his remains were
unrecognizable so he was never positively identified.. He
was identified purely by his personal effects. Derek asks
Alex to bring up the file photo of Jason Krenshaw and the
resemblance is incredible. Then he realizes he also looks
like Brian and has her pull up a file photo of Brian. He
then has Alex change the hair and the facial hair. Rachel
asks if she can make him look 12 years younger. "I
can make him look like Madonna if you like." Alex
says confidently. When the comparison is done, Rachel
says there is no way a child can look that much like his
parent. "Unless Jason and Brian are the same
person" Derek replies, "Maybe he found a way to
stay young. To regenerate his body." Rachel
announces that, "Jason Krenshaw made a pact with the
darkside." Derek deduces, "That's how he
maintains his youth, stealing life force from his
victims. Jason Krenshaw killed Robert Boyle." Rachel
declares that "He didn't come here to solve that
murder he came here to cover it up!" Derek tells
them that Nick is in danger and asks where Krenshaw is
now. Alex replies that he left the island earlier that
day. Derek leaves to find him and tells Alex and Rachel
to stay there in case Nick calls. He strides out of the
control room resolutely.

House on San Dimas Road - night

Moonlight shines in the windows of the house. Brian
and Nick are already inside and Brian has his back to
Nick as he says "I knew you'd come. You've got a lot
of your old man in you, Nick. Take that as a
compliment." Nick asks him if he saw anything and
Brian says he saw the killer. He tells Nick the killer is
not big or imposing but he does have a distinguishing
trait and that's the hand. He laughs, commenting that it
looks sort of like this and pulls out his right hand from
his pocket and it's glowing an eerie yellow light. Nick
astonished, demands, "What the hell are you?"
as he backs away. "Brian Krenshaw, Jason Krenshaw,
take your pick there's only one of us" he replies.
Nick deduces that he invented Brian and there really was
no son. Jason applauds and comments that the problem with
eternal youth is that eventually people notice. Nick is
very angry that Jason faked his death and betrayed Robert
since "he was your friend." Jason replies that
Robert wouldn't give up trying to find his killer so he
had to kill him. It was his life or eternal life.
"It was a no-brainer." He begins fighting with
Nick and throws Nick easily into the air. He lands on a
wooden table, partially collapsing it. Jason goes on to
say that he was never certain Robert knew who killed him
so he was concerned when he heard that he'd made contact
with Nick. The fight continues as Nick picks up the
remnants of the table and breaks it over Jason. At that,
Jason easily pins Nick against the wall. He laughs evilly
and tells Nick that he's not such a bad guy because he
could have killed him the other day at the house. He
didn't, because he sensed his father in him, the same
force, the same strength he admired in Robert. Nick
struggles but can't break free. Jason puts his hand over
Nick's heart and asks,. "Do I have to kill you
too?" Nick replies "It's gonna be hard to kiss
and make up after this." Jason is resolute and tells
him that his father wouldn't compromise but he's giving
him a choice to join him in eternal life. Nick,
struggling for breath, responds, "You're insane. You
betrayed your friend and the Legacy." Jason laughs
evilly and says, "The retirement plan left a lot to
be desired. Eternal life was far more attractive. Don't
make the same mistake your father did. Join me and
live." Nick, breathing heavily, looks directly into
his eyes and says, "Go to hell." Jason laughs
evilly, pushes his hand on Nicks chest and says,
"You're about to spend eternity with a man you spent
a lifetime hating." As he puts his hand on Nicks
chest it begins glowing and Nick cries out in pain.

Just then, Derek enters the house intoning,
"Jason Krenshaw, we know who you are." Jason
lets go of Nick and turns and attacks Derek. Nick
collapses to the floor, nearly unconscious. Derek is
forced backwards into the chair where Robert was killed.
And as Jason puts his glowing hand over Derek's heart,
Derek says "Every Legacy house in the world will
hunt you down." Jason tells him that he can
disappear again. Derek, moaning in pain cannot fight
back. Nick staggers to his feet grabs a piece of wood
from the remnants of the broken table and strikes Jason
with it until he leaves Derek, who is nearly unconscious
in the chair, and backs up away from the blows.. Nick
hits him again and Jason falls backwards and is impaled
through the heart by a piece of the broken table. Nick
looks down as Jason dies and comments, "You should
have taken the retirement package. Nick turns back to
Derek, who is moving in the chair. As Jason dies, the
body begins to glow, causing Nick to turn around and face
the glow of the light. As the light reaches upward,
Robert's ghost appears, smiles at Nick and reaches his
hand forward. Nick reaches his right hand to his father's
hand so close that their hands nearly touch. Robert
smiles, saying, "Thank you son," then
disappears with the remnants of the light from Jason's
body.. Nick stands, looking ashen, staring at the place
his father s ghost had been. Derek, seeing this, gets up
from the chair and slowly moves behind Nick. He silently
reaches up and clasps his shoulder firmly and kindly in a
gesture of support. At the touch of Derek's hand, Nick
closes his eyes and looks totally exhausted.

Legacy House - Library 
daytime

A fire burns in the fireplace. Nick is alone in the
room and sitting on the floor at the top of the steps of
the balcony of the library room. He has the letter his
father wrote him 12 years ago open and is reading it. As
he reads the words, he gets increasingly sad and
distressed. As he reads he swallows hard and blinks away
tears and breathes in large gulps of air as he tries to
maintain control.

Dear son. You want answers. Words have never
come easily to me. I'll be direct.

In my world, survival and discipline are all
that matter. And I thought if I gave these that would
be enough. You think that I don't love you, that I'm
not proud of you. I've never been proud of myself,
but I have always been proud of you. I've never been
able to say it, but I've felt it and I hope that I
can say it to you now. I may not be the father you
need or deserve but I can try. I promise you soon
when I come home, we'll talk. It's gonna be OK. Love,
your Dad.

Tears stream down Nick's face as he finishes the
reading the letter. He breaks down, covers his face with
his hand and sobs.